Dear peoples!

      This week was crazy!  We started it off with a lot of traveling around, blah! We had a training in Lille with the zone, and everyone in Belgium.  I got to see all my buds, so that was pretty sweet.  President gave a wonderful training on becoming perfectly obedient and giving ourselves completely to the work! It was awesome!

      So, we have expressed our concern about our branch and their home teaching, and they still haven't really expressed any desire to it.  We have, at least, been able to get them to see the importance of going to see a FEW of the less actives .   We'll see what happens.

      This week we received a call from the proprietor of our apartment. He said  that they were selling the complex to a new proprietor, so they wanted to see our apartment. Needless to say, we had to spend quite a bit of time cleaning the place.  Some past missionaries had done some damage to this poor place. Oh well, at least it's clean now!

          We had an awesome rendez vous with a part member family this week. The Arcara family. The husband is less active.  The husband is less active because he doesn't agree with some of the doctrine of the church.  Since I have been here, his heart has changed ALOT!  He wants to come back to church and grow to understand the doctrine!  His wife is catholic and SUPER sweet. She is really into sign language and even taught us a few signs. I have actually been to their house a few times, but she never sat in until last week.  We got to meet her and had shared a good spiritual thought with them that sparked LOADS of conversation. We hope to be able to work more with them.  Hopefully some more good will come from that. 

          We are also starting to have a few people come up to us randomly and ask us questions about God. These people want to learn more! Yeah, hard work pays off! I have found that most times you show God you are willing to contact for a long sum of time and nothing grand happens.  You still do your best and then later, when you aren't even contacting, people come to you!

     Well, the work is going well and we are doing our best to follow up on all of these opportunities God is giving us.  Good things are gonna come from it!

     I loves you loads!   I just finished letters for y'all, so as soon as I can find a post I will send it out!

Love Elder Lyons